Fly Around my Blue-Eyed Girl- Hobart Smith (VA) 1959
[Roud's date. From Virginia Traditions: Blue Ridge Piano Styles, 1981. Originally issued on Prestige International's Southern Journey Series, INT-DS 25004. In August, 1942, Alan Lomax, went to Saltville to record Texas Gladden and her brother Hobart Smith for the Library of Congress. I'm not sure of the details of this recording.
Clarice Shelor of Virginia did a piano version also (see also: Dad Blackard's Susanna Gal).
R. Matteson 2018]
Fly Around my Blue-Eyed Girl- played on piano and sung by Hobart Smith of Saltville, VA in August, 1959.
[piano intro and fills]
Fly around, my blue-eyed gal,
Fly around, my daisy;
Fly around, my blue-eyed gal;
Almost drove me crazy.
[Piano]
If you get there before I do,
Tell her if you please,
Before she goes to make her bread,
Roll up her dirty sleeves.
[Piano]
I wish I had some pretty little gal
To tell my secrets to
To heck with all deceitful gals
Tell everything I do.
[Piano]
Fly around, my blue-eyed gal,
Fly around, my daisy;
Fly around, my blue-eyed gal;
Almost drove me crazy.
[Piano]